Details
Contributor Tobin, M.F., printer.
Lloyd & Porter, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Wm. Gunzer trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1881
Date [ca. 1881]
Physical Description 16 prints : chromolithographs ; 7 x 11 cm. (2.75 x 4.25 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for Wm. Gunzer, practical hair cutter, 34 North Broad Street, opposite Masonic Hall in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict flowers; children playing on the beach and in the ocean; comic scenes showing men, women and children ice skating, rowing a boat, playing on a swingset, and playing baseball; and portraits of old men and women dangling items to lure various animals, including a dog, an owl, a monkey, a rabbit, a cat, and a parakeet.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Four prints [1975.F.366, 370, 374 & 376] copyrighted 1881 by M.F. Tobin, N.Y.
Printers and engravers include Lloyd & Porter (Philadelphia) and M.F. Tobin (New York).
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Gunzer, William.
Hairdressing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Barbershops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Animals.
Baseball.
Beaches.
Flowers.
Ice skating.
Oceans.
Play (Recreation)
Rowboats.
Swings.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Humorous pictures -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Gunzer [1975.F.353; 1975.F.357 & 358; 1975.F.363; 1975.F.366; 1975.F.370; 1975.F.374; 1975.F.376; 1975.F.388; 1975.F.390-397]
Accession number [various]